Tuesday, October 23, 2007

and the silence which rang, where no one took a breath

Okay, music geek post - I went down with the Techno Trio and Star Violinist to Aik Keong's recital yesterday, and can I just say it was simply amazing! Repertoire - Schumann's Canonic Variations, the Mozart Two Piano in D major, and Schubert's Fantasy in F minor. The Schumann was sublime, and I was nearly in tears at the penultimate return of the theme in the Schubert.

You see, music is about the movement between the notes, and not the notes itself. And I daresay that the most beautiful moments come about when anticipation lingers in the air, as you wait for the next anguished note to sound, full of pathos, as Junie likes to put it. Delicious, and such exquisite tension.

Aik Keong, you have just inspired me to practise piano again. Yibin, won't you play the Schubert with me? Pretty please?

blueprint

I will like to spend my days, as though they are my own, which I mostly end up doing in halves, for duty beckons, and I am answering its clarion call. Soon enough! I am also a veteran procrastinator.

fresh monodies

the sharing of gifts witnessed by drained green.
despite the time stretch of wintry months
the second wave.
before i sleep, public note to self
at last!
messages and reminders from the world that leave g...
where home is.
testament betrayed, close to tears.
and not so clinically
a clinical rhetoric.

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treatises on life

arty jen
betty boop
carmentica
charming-linn
chasing snowy cars
cheeky lynn
cheryliciously glam
clean and cute
cyclist-mad bass
darling dominic
feisty jing
fellow ditz-sista/porkSTAR
hail mary!
hell's kitchen
hero on the beach
h-Euge heart
hunky lenny
lipgloss queen
little cheryl
live n learn, baby
lolita lou
loony loon
mr popular
musically dan
m y s t j
phringe
princess tania
roger smurf
runaway pigeon
sabotage king jeremiah
sibling angst1
sibling angst2
spector dan
spunky tian
steffy bunny
sun-sunzzz
teeny wee-nee
weeeee, leonard!
yangtze yang'en

frivolous pursuits

for shallow ppl
for very geeky ppl
for the truly bored
spun prose
binary thoughts
past imprints
some stamps
montage of images
other memories

mulling over

And there were phlegmatic souls.